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| Layla playing pizza "guy"... because apparently only guys serve pizza. |
I have this thing... it's kind of an annoying habit, but more. It's less habitual and more necessity. Which is what probably makes it a problem....
I go into the play room after Layla and/or friends clean up and I re-put everything away - In the right place. For example: I can't stand to just have the wooden pizza set just shoved into the play kitchen cabinets, I need to take all the toppings off and place them in the pink bin, straighten the slices of pizza and put it all together with the pizza cutter and serving spatula in a nice straight row. Or I pull all the toys out of the white bins and organize them into coordinating toy things. And on a really bad/good day you might even catch me rearranging all the furniture in the doll house and straightening the doll house beds.
So my food for thought this weekend is this:
At which point does it cross the line between organized and just plain pathetic?
Enjoy your families this weekend because that's the best part.
2 comments:
Oh Shan:) I totally love you... I wish I were more like you!
If you enjoy doing it and have a positive feeling after you have finished, then go for it, especially if you have the time to do it. If you resent doing it or let it take precedence over spending time with the family, maybe not so good. Right now Layla is not old enough to realize or worry over the fact that you "re-do" her cleanup job. I remember having a similar conundrum after you kids would make your beds; should I leave them the way you made them (less than perfect in my mind's eye), or should I go back and remake them to my specifications. I didn't want you to come home from school and say to yourself, "Why did I bother to make my bed when Mom is just going to come back every day and remake it?" Guess there are a couple of options, especially as your kids get older and more capable. You can teach them how to "do it right" and help them as they do it, or you can let them do a half-baked job of it and then look away. After much deliberation ,when you became a teenager, I finally convinced myself to keep your door shut to your room as much as possible and only make an issue of it once a week on the weekends. My father ALWAYS said, " If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing right." I had kind of made that my mantra. Then one day, Sherry Rampton, remember her, "Miss perfection" in my mind who seemed to be able to do everything? Well she once said to me, "Mary, some things just aren't worth doing a great job on." I nearly fell over. She said the trick is deciding which things are worth doing perfectly and which things aren't. Interesting thing to contemplate.
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